In good company the heart grows clean, the Name makes the words sweet, and the heart-flower opens like a lotus to the sun.
The Arc
The shabad opens: in good company the heavy things fall away and the love-warmed heart stops circling. The Rahau: speaking the Name makes the words gentle and the whole self clear. The verses tell of tasting the essence and being satisfied, the intellect brightening and the heart-lotus blooming, a cool contentment quenching thirst and the racing mind coming home; it closes safe in the Protector's keeping, at peace in the Name and the vision of the holy.
Key Vocabulary
kalmal sabh nasnaa: the heavy things fall away in good company
soochee bha-ee rasnaa: the tongue made gentle and true by speaking the Name
ulat kamal bigsanaa: the heart-lotus, turned inward, blossoms open
seetal saant santokh: cooled, peaceful, content — the settled heart
Themes and Cross-Connections
Chanting the Name is framed wholly positively — it makes the words sweet and the self clear. The inward-blooming lotus and the quenched thirst mark the awakening; the close rests in safety (raakhanhaar) and seetal peace.
For Raag Bilaaval
The blooming lotus and the cool contentment are Bilaaval through and through — brightness and ease together.
Translation Notes
The literal's garabh na garsanaa (not cast into the womb of rebirth) is rendered as being freed from anxious circling, keeping the teaching of release while setting aside womb-and-rebirth imagery, per the wellbeing rules.
In good company the heart grows clean, the Name makes the words sweet, and the heart-flower opens like a lotus to the sun.
The Arc
The shabad opens: in good company the heavy things fall away and the love-warmed heart stops circling. The Rahau: speaking the Name makes the words gentle and the whole self clear. The verses tell of tasting the essence and being satisfied, the intellect brightening and the heart-lotus blooming, a cool contentment quenching thirst and the racing mind coming home; it closes safe in the Protector's keeping, at peace in the Name and the vision of the holy.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Chanting the Name is framed wholly positively — it makes the words sweet and the self clear. The inward-blooming lotus and the quenched thirst mark the awakening; the close rests in safety (raakhanhaar) and seetal peace.
For Raag Bilaaval
The blooming lotus and the cool contentment are Bilaaval through and through — brightness and ease together.
Translation Notes
The literal's garabh na garsanaa (not cast into the womb of rebirth) is rendered as being freed from anxious circling, keeping the teaching of release while setting aside womb-and-rebirth imagery, per the wellbeing rules.
Last updated: 2026-07-08